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  1. dmckee17

    This weeks haul:

    Had a pretty good week, more home demolition sites, some fresh ones and some revisited.The Gold ring (female with initials inside) and the Hertz drive-ur-self key fob(?) and the 59' dime came from the revisits (I guess I missed them last year). The Nickles (41' and 53') and the other dimes...
  2. dmckee17

    Finds: 3-17-10

    3 decent pennies I found Wednesday in an older section of town along with lots of rotted Zinc pennies and a little clad. The 1898 (my first 1800 coin) Indian head was 1 inch beside a sidewalk about 2 inches down, I believe the roughest penny is a 1909S, but its really too rough to amount to much...
  3. dmckee17

    11-27-2009 finds (silver again) at old well hammered park

    Went to the old park again for about 3 hours today, found a total of 4 coins, some kind of thumbwheel, about a dozen beavertail pulltabs, numerous pieces of can slaw, couple green .22 hulls. The Dime was 5" deep, laying at an angle but gave a decent signal to the Cortes. Slow day but better than...
  4. dmckee17

    11-25-2009 finds (silver) at well hammered old park.

    Same park as the 1910 "V" nickel, 1925 wheatie last week, The first coin I dug was the 1942P Silver war Nickel, its in at least EF-40 condition. Other keepers were the 1945, 1946 wheats in kinda rough shape. Coins are not very plentiful here but the ones you find are mostly older dates if you...
  5. dmckee17

    11-20-2009 finds,"V" Nickel

    Went to an old well hammered park friday, I made a point to go slow and really overlap my sweeps (about 50%) and It paid off. I spent 2 hours and dug a few green rimfire .22 hulls, a few pulltabs, misc. junk, and 6 coins. Tally: 4 newer coins, 1910 V nickel (with full LIBERTY headband and hair...
  6. dmckee17

    11-12-09 finds pic

    I went to the same lot again for a couple hours this morning that I posted about a few days ago titled: "Minimum Disc vs All Metal". Had similar results, dug 4 wheaties, skeleton key, 3 clad coinage, eagle & anchor button, a small 1934 Birmingham chauffeur badge. thanks for looking!
  7. dmckee17

    Minimum Disc. versus All metal??

    Just wondering, Using the Cortes in discriminate on minimum with sensitivity on max, wouldn't it essentially be silent search All metal?? I tried it today in an area (house lot) that I have searched quite a few times and has always produced good finds in the past (Buffalo nickels, Mercury dimes...
  8. dmckee17

    a couple older dimes

    On the way home from work this morning October 8, stopped by an older area of town that used to be a college from about the teens to about the early sixties. All of it was redeveloped back then but there is still little undisturbed areas worthy to be detected. I chose an area between road and...
  9. dmckee17

    1943 Steel Penny question

    Has anyone ever dug any of the steel 1943 Steel wheat cents? I've dug wheaties that I couldn't say they were or weren't from the condition they were in but I never have for sure. I have pretty much every year but those. Did they all rust away?
  10. dmckee17

    Biggest silver yet, dug today!:super:

    Went detecting today in the same area where I've made other good finds in the past few weeks, (2 Mercury dimes, V-Nickle) The third signal I dug was a 1934 walking liberty half at about 3 inches, you could have pushed me over with a feather when I first saw it (I've never owned one of these). It...
  11. dmckee17

    Artillery pin dug today, led to another find.

    Went detecting couple hours this morning, few finds were a 1928 wheat, 1944 wheat, and an Artillery pin? I searched the web for info but never could identify it any further. But through my searching for the pin I came across a familiar looking ring that said ORAN 1944, (as it turns out I dug...
  12. dmckee17

    Aug. 19 finds

    Same area different lot, for about an hour. I got rained out before I could really hunt it. notables are: wheats 1929, 1946, 1951. mercury dime 1924. token? tag??
  13. dmckee17

    Older finds today...

    Revisited an older section of town today, hunted vacant lot of unknown date but was pleasantly surprised to unearth a 1913 wheat cent right off the bat. Slowed down a bit and dug an iffy signal which turned out to be the find of the day to me, my first "V" nickel, a 1910. I kept going and dug a...
  14. dmckee17

    Foreign silver coin today!

    Today, I revisited the local house demolition area where I've been detecting for about a year now. I searched a backyard of mostly bare dirt and found a 1942 nederl. indie 1/4 G (pictured) in near mint condition. along with a 1958 Quarter, 1964 Dime, 8 wheat cents from 1918-1956. Most of these...
  15. dmckee17

    couple of Cortes coil questions?

    1. What (if any) coils will fit a Cortes (built late 2007) besides the 9 x 8 original? I have looked at Tesoro's website and brochures but never seen any listed for the Cortes. 2. Does the cord stay with the coil as a unit or do they separate?
  16. dmckee17

    Key date Lincoln cent dug today, 1914D!

    Long story short: Went detecting this morning for a quick hunt (had to carry daughter to orthodontist at 10:30am). I had been to this same unhunted vacant lot before about mid December and found 2 silver roosevelts, and probably a dozen or so wheats. I figured it was hunted out, wrong. I merely...
  17. dmckee17

    I think I found GOLD!? look

    Went detecting today (1-29) in a rougher part of town on the way home from work this morning. In an older (1920's?) neighborhood I saw an empty lot where a house had been demolished and still bare dirt. Decided to give it a try, found a few memorial cents 1960's and 1970's not much else, then a...
  18. dmckee17

    How thorough do you search?

    I'm curious as to how thorough fellow detectorists search an area. I'm sure everyone goes about it a little different. Say you have a smooth dirt area (no grass) 100' x 100' to search and scattered randomly within are 2 or 3 half dimes (small targets). How do you actually practice your search in...
  19. dmckee17

    Notable finds of 2008

    Bought Tesoro Cortes December 2007, used frequently all year. These finds plus about $70.00 in clad and and non-wheat cents and lots of pull tabs, screw caps and junk along the way.
  20. dmckee17

    Coin Graffiti

    Finished up today searching a gravel parking area 2 cars wide in front of a small house built in 1940's, (small gray gravel, grassed over). In this one parking spot found 1950d dime, 1951s dime, 19?? standing liberty quarter. The 1951s dime has a small "swastika" scratched over roosevelts nose...
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